Roxxon Energy Corporation

Roxxon Energy Corporation
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance Captain America #180 (December 1974)
Created by Steve Englehart
Sal Buscema
In-story information
Type of business Petroleum company
Base(s) Various locations
Owner(s) Various
Employee(s) Various
Roster
See:Members section

Roxxon Energy Corporation (also known as Roxxon, formerly known as Roxxon Oil Company) is the name of a fictional massive petroleum corporation run by various owners.[1] The company appears in comic book stories published by Marvel Comics and exists in that company's shared universe, known as the Marvel Universe.

Publication history

Roxxon Energy Corporation first appeared in Captain America #180 (December 1974) and was created by Steve Englehart and Sal Buscema.

Fictional company history

Roxxon is the world's largest conglomerate. Roxxon is notorious for its determination to make massive profits regardless of any laws or moral principles, and continually covertly uses unethical and illegal means to increase its profits. As such, it is involved in numerous criminal plots that require the opposition of the various superheroes to stop. The name of the company resembles that of Exxon, an American petroleum company often criticized for its profiteering at the expense of the environment.

While this fictional company has encountered numerous superheroes, it has most notably been at odds with Iron Man, as in a storyline called "The Iron Age" where it was revealed that agents of Roxxon Oil (then known as Republic Oil and Gas) killed Tony Stark's parents. Roxxon has also regularly been at odds with Project Pegasus regarding energy sources as the latter has been involved with alternative energy research that could hurt Roxxon's oil profitability.

The central division of the Roxxon conglomerate is Roxxon Oil. The company is currently a wholly owned subsidiary of the Kronas Corporation, the Metrobank, and the Brand Corporation. Brand is another for-profit company that has specialized in creating superhumans. While Brand is usually considered a Roxxon subsidiary, it has sometimes made its own decisions and acted independently.

Roxxon has its own army-like security task force, and has employed a number of special agents, many of whom it has given superhuman abilities.

The company's former head Hugh Jones had been arrested several times but has never been convicted to date.

In the mini-series Great Lakes Avengers, a character named the Grasshopper was introduced. Real name Douglas Taggert, he was an employee of Roxxon, wearing a suit of cybernetic armor themed like a grasshopper developed by them to defend the company. Seconds after accepting an invitation to join the GLA he was killed by a villain named Zaran.

In the following GLX-Mas Special, Killer Shrike (a former employee of Roxxon) attempts to steal "Project Z" from the company, but he is stopped by a new Grasshopper that defeats the villain. He dies mere minutes later after activating the suit's maximum jump, which launched him into space.

Since then the Red Skull was inside Aleksander Lukin's body, the villain has used the former Soviet General's powerful Kronas Corporation and the Cosmic Cube in order to buy out Roxxon.

In Dark Reign: New Nation, Roxxon Oil operative Anton Aubuisson massacres a tribe of Anuquit natives in order to build an oil pipeline, but their efforts are thwarted by War Machine.

Roxxon Energy is shown to previously have a mining operation on Mars, but due to unexplained circumstances, halted the operation and erased all traces of everyone involved.[2][3]

Roxxon Energy Corporation (alongside Alchemax and Hammer Industries) was mentioned in a conversation between Spider-Man and Human Torch to have once tried to bid on the renovated Baxter Building only to be outbid by Parker Industries.[4]

Subsidiaries

Members

Executives

Former Executives

Staff

Former staff

Super-operatives

Hired agents

Other versions

Amalgam Comics

Roxxon exists in the Amalgam universe and is similar to the main Roxxon.[72]

Roxxon 2099

Roxxon is still going strong in the alternate future of 2099 and is one of the major corporations.[73]

Transformers UK

Roxxon exists in the Transformers 120185 reality. Professor Peter Anthony Morris was working for them in Oregon where he came up with the theory that the Transformers were controlled by oil tycoon G.B. Blackrock. He accidentally kills a Roxxon security guard.

Ultimate Marvel

The Ultimate Marvel version of the Roxxon Corporation is responsible for various immoral activities; Elijah Stern discovered a way to use vibranium as a power source for the company but gets fired so Roxxon could get all the credit,[74] and Herman Schultz gotten hold of his design weapons for Roxxon before his employment termination.[75] Following the events of Ultimate Enemy and Ultimate Mystery, Roxxon Corporation assembles a Roxxon Brain Trust consisting of Doctor Octopus, Dr. Arnim Zola III, Dr. Layla Miller, Misty Knight, Dr. Samuel Sterns and Dr. Nathaniel Essex.[76]

In other media

Television

Films

Video games

See also

References

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